What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

[HIPster]

Jonathan Harvey - Bhakti

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[André]

Jonathan Harvey - Bhakti

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Haven't listened to that in years ! Did you like it ?

IIRC, that was a bit thorny. I preferred the ATMA disc with Trio Fibonacci.

[SimonNZ]

William Herschel symphonies - Matthias Bamert, cond.

[Karl Henning]

Haven't listened to that in years! Did you like it?

I echo both portions of that post 

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[André]

Born 1929. One of hundreds of composers who emerged in the frigid stalinist years and composed music based on directness of utterance, melodic/rythmic appeal. Well recognized in his time. Lest it sound dismissive, the music is actually interesting and inventive, if not original. I enjoyed this disc.

[Mahlerian]

Stravinsky: Suite italienne, Ballad, Danse russe, Chanson russe, Pastorale, Divertimento
Isabelle van Keulen, Olli Mustonen

[Madiel]

L'Enfant et les Sortileges

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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

No better way to start the morning than with some chamber music by Kagel

[Todd]

From the RCA box.  Basically, the same recital that Weissenberg recorded for DG, sans Estampes.  Clean, clear, quick Debussy playing, though Weissenberg does have a softer touch here.  Performance-wise, I prefer this to the DG set.

[HIPster]

Haven't listened to that in years ! Did you like it ?

IIRC, that was a bit thorny. I preferred the ATMA disc with Trio Fibonacci.

Parts of it.   

I've read that the ATMA release is the way to go.

This play was prompted by a post here, of a few days ago, of another of Harvey's compositions.  I pulled the disc for a weekend listen.

Probably will end up in the discard pile.

[Mandryka]

I miss the devotion and serenity of . . . Bert Matter.

Sure Bert Matter can do serenity very well, but I must say my toupée was blown off by his BWV 665, serene it ain't.

[Madiel]

5 more excellent songs of Duparc.

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[king ubu]

continuing my large-scale Horszowski tour ... and continuing to be mesmerized

[NikF]

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos - Ashkenazy/Haitink/Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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[Todd]

Disc 2 from Jansons, symphonies 2 & 12, so the worst disc of the set, even before a note is played.  The Second is just plain bad under any baton.  Jansons manages to do reasonably well in the Twelfth, particularly in the opening movement.  The disc got its obligatory one spin.

[Madiel]

Volume 1 of Mahler's early Lieder.

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Which, because of the way this disc is organised, means programming the CD player to jump around. I don't really get in this particular case why they couldn't have had them in the order the songs were originally published, keeping the non-Wunderhorn songs together.

[André]

Phillip Sainton is known (if at all) for the magnificent score to John Huston's sea epic Moby Dick. A recording is on Marco Polo. Highly recommended. One of the most dramatic and exhilarating "sea symphonies" I know. His main score here, The Island is also influenced by seascapes. It does not demerit next to Bax tone poems (Tintagel comes to mind).

Patrick Hadley's wonderful quasi-symphony The Trees so High can also be found on other labels (I also have it on Lyrita). Bamert conducts well and the recording is suitably opulent and transparent.

[Richard]

Listened to an arrangement of the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony while running along the lakefront and watching the sunrise. A profoundly moving experience.

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Got home, poured a cup of warm cider and spent some time with an entirely new composer (to me).

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[kishnevi]

Volume 1 of Mahler's early Lieder.

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Which, because of the way this disc is organised, means programming the CD player to jump around. I don't really get in this particular case why they couldn't have had them in the order the songs were originally published, keeping the non-Wunderhorn songs together.

I'd have to go digging to be sure, but I think the song order there reflects order of composition--and in addition, the Wunderhorn songs were revised for publication.  So the ones included here are the beta versions, so to speak.

TD
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CD 8
Sonata No. 14 Op. 165
Monologe. 12 Stucke fur Orgel Op. 162